Science Fiction Stories

He was the most powerful man in the world. He could make anybody do anything--and yet he was the slave of a mad criminal's mind!

A story in the Warhammer 40K Universe
I originally wrote this back in October 2006 as the precursor to a series. Then I lost it. Now I have found it by chance via the internet wayback machine. The series was 'The Loyndl Incursion' and consisted of this, 'Arbitrary Arbites', 'Shopping with the girlfriend' three separate 'Tobias' stories and a couple of others.

This is a sci-fi story about a hermit who is being harassed and wants to find out why. The harassment escalates until he finds a note warning him that this is a matter of life and death. He begins this journey going deeper into the woods. Where is he bing led, and what will he find there that is so crucial.

Marvin Purdoch is having a bad day - saving humanity!

The planet itself was tough enough--barren, desolate, forbidding; enough to stop the most adventurous and dedicated. But they had to run head-on against a mad genius who had a motto: Death to all Terrans!

Crane didn't get the nice man's name--until it was far too late to do anything at all about it.

He appeared in glory and sank without a trace. Why? How? For the first time anywhere, here is the startling inside story.

An alien occupation. Resistance as a family enterprise. Stan Matheson knows duty, sacrifice, and at the end, surprise. Linked to "Diversions of Angels" 2,700+ words

He had borne the thousand and one injuries with humility and charity. But the insults! These were more than he could suffer....

A stratospheric weather ship flying with an improbably large crew suddenly caught suspended in a force bubble in mid-air.